China is reported to be clamping down on mobile phone subscribers who send "illegal or unhealthy" content via text messages. According to a report in the official China Daily newspaper, China Mobile's Shanghai branch said offenders will be suspended from using their text messaging service, but denied that the accounts would be suspended.
The clamp down seems to be affecting subscribers in Beijing and Shanghai, although the exact parameter of what causes a text message to trigger the ban is unclear. China Mobile said on its website that the automatic rating is based on "key words" provided by police.
China Telecom and China Unicom, two other major mobile operators in China, also claimed that they will follow the action, the report said.
When a suspected unhealthy message is detected, the mobile network operators will temporarily suspend the message function of the user and wait for the evaluation from police authorities.
The government periodically clamps down on text messages, either shutting down the entire service in areas of civil strife to sweeps to curb "undesirable" activity by individual users.
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